Lists made from a hanging indent

Bulleted, numbered and nested lists, each built out of a hanging indent and one tab stop rather than out of list machinery: the marker sits in the room the indent opens, and every line below the first begins where the tabulation put the text.

Bulleted, numbered and nested lists, none of which needs any list machinery. A list item is a paragraph whose first line hangs out to the left: the marker sits in the room that indent opens, the tabulation after it carries the cursor to the stop the text begins at, and every line below the first starts at that same stop.

Nesting is the same block again, with its marker where the block above put its text. That is worth knowing, because it means the marker can be anything you can draw — a dot, a number, a letter, a dash, a symbol from your own font — and the wrapping stays correct whatever you choose.

What this example shows

• A hanging indent and one tab stop, doing the work of a list.
• Later lines start under the text, never under the marker.
• Nested levels made by nesting the same construction again.

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